Govt's development model creating inequality
Speakers at a discussion yesterday said the government's present development model is creating inequality and violence, and such model should be restructured to ensure democratic rights of people.
Centre for Bangladesh Studies (CBS) arranged the discussion on “Unnayan Model-er Shahingshata, Gonotantrik Nyajyatar Proshno” (Violence in development model, the question of democratic justice) at Bishwo Shahitto Kendro in the capital.
Tanjimuddin Khan, a teacher of International Relations department at Dhaka University, said Bangladesh's present political-economic model has been following a “neo-liberal policy”.
Such policy was instrumental in helping a certain group of people becoming rich and advanced, while leaving the others behind, he said.
As a result, violence sparked when deprived groups tried to establish their rights and advanced groups went for keeping the policy alive, he said.
“Democracy is not possible in such a political-economic system,” he added.
The state opted for using its legal structure and also politicised its law enforcement agencies to enforce this so-called development model, said Supreme Court lawyer and rights activist Barrister Jyotirmoy Barua.
Indigenous rights activist Ilira Dewan said a type of development model was followed in the country's hilly region, which resulted in eviction of many families of ethnic communities from their ancestral homes.
Rushad Faridi, a teacher of Economics department at Dhaka University, said to overcome the present situation, the country's constitutional and legal structures need to be re-structured, giving priority to a humanistic approach.
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